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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 268–282.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Zachariah Pickard Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 BAI Natural History and Epiphany: Elizabeth Bishop’s Darwin Letter Zachariah Pickard riting in his Autobiography about the joys of beetle collecting and, particularly, the pleasure of discovering a new...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 483–490.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Timothy J. Materer The editors seek to capture the arc of Merrill’s life. In the early letters, Merrill discusses his gay identity with early lovers, including his Amherst College teacher Kimon Friar and his first partner Claude Fredericks. His correspondence with his mother, Hellen, would fill...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 349–354.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Donald A. Daiker The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, 1907–1922 , edited by Spanier Sandra and Trogdon Robert W. , Cambridge University Press , 2011 . 431 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Review “I sure like to get letters” The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, 1907...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 369–376.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Christopher J. Knight The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 3: 1926–1927 , Edited by Eliot Valerie and Haffenden John , Yale University Press , 2012 . 954 pages. © 2015 by Hofstra University 2013 Review The Letters of  T. S. Eliot, Volume 3: 1926–1927 Edited by Valerie...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 119–127.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Jennifer P. Nesbitt Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture and the Emergence of Postcolonial Aesthetics , by Kalliney Peter J. , Oxford University Press , 2013 . 336 pages. © 2015 by Hofstra University 2014 Review Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 113–119.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Jeffrey Gutierrez [email protected] The Selected Letters of John Berryman . Edited by Coleman Philip McRae Calista . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2020 . 726 pages. © 2023 Hofstra University 2023 Teaching at Harvard in early 1942 and about to have...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 34–53.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Tonje Vold Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 Tonje Vold How to “rise above mere nationality”: Coetzee’s Novels Youth and Slow Man in the World Republic of Letters Tonje Vold J. M. Coetzee’s work presents critical reflections on literature that circulate beyond their culture...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (2): 171–192.
Published: 01 June 2000
...Oliver Harris Copyright © Hofstra University 2000 Cold War Correspondents: Ginsberg, Kerouac, Cassady, and the Political Economy of Beat Letters O liver H arris n June 23, 1953, an aspiring poet employed as a copyboy for the New York World Telegram...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 431–462.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Frances Dickey The over one thousand letters from T. S. Eliot to Emily Hale, opened to the public on January 2, 2020, reveal the poet’s emotional and creative dependence on Hale and illuminate the meanings of “Gerontion,” The Waste Land , Ash-Wednesday , “Landscapes,” Murder in the Cathedral , Four...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (1): 56–74.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Paul Bradley Bellew American modernist Hart Crane’s poem “The Idiot” details the poet’s real-life encounters with a young man with a cognitive disability. Beginning in 1926, Crane worked on the poem through different versions through letters, manuscripts, and magazine publications until about 1932...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Christopher Patrick Miller Hart Crane’s lyrics abound with transient figures who often doubt their intelligibility or viability as persons, and his letters reflect a significant anxiety about his own ability to communicate the problems he experienced in being and remaining intelligible to others...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 427–450.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Fiona Green This article focuses on the poems Marianne Moore wrote during and between visits to Virginia in the mid-1930s that were published in The Pangolin and Other Verse (1936). Prompted by an exchange of letters between Moore and Ezra Pound in 1935, the essay considers relationships between...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 451–474.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Edward Allen With reference to a vinyl record, some unpublished letters, and a series of reading scripts, this essay reconstructs the circumstances of a trip Marianne Moore made to Harvard in December 1941. Her trip to Cambridge followed closely in the wake of Roosevelt’s declaration of war...
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Published: 01 June 2024
Figures 2 and 3 An example of the typewritten, largely unedited first draft of The Town ; on the reverse side, a diagram of the Snopes family tree. Other pages were economically typed on the back of unpublished letters, speeches, grocery lists, etc. ( Faulkner 1918–59 ). More
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Published: 01 June 2024
Figures 2 and 3 An example of the typewritten, largely unedited first draft of The Town ; on the reverse side, a diagram of the Snopes family tree. Other pages were economically typed on the back of unpublished letters, speeches, grocery lists, etc. ( Faulkner 1918–59 ). More
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 283–316.
Published: 01 September 2004
... on the contemporary novel tends to be anthologized along with the many letters, essays, polemics, and apologies that emerged from his confrontation with Henry James indicates how unwilling twentieth-century literary criticism has been to endorse his objectives for the novel, preferring...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 29–52.
Published: 01 March 2023
... to “everyday reality”—reductions that are perhaps the most severe consequences of the egoist’s “confrontation with fictionality.” This essay considers how Ammons’s early journals, letters, and poems prepared the ground for that confrontation, teasing out a subplot that threads its way through one...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (2): 219–245.
Published: 01 June 2003
...Linda Leavell Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 Marianne Moore, the James Family, and the Politics of Celibacy Linda Leavell ot long before she died, Marianne Moore received a letter, a form letter, requesting her signature on the following statement: “I have had...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (4): 414–436.
Published: 01 December 2005
... of Birthday Letters. We might even see England’s former poet laureate, or the author of such well-known works as “The Thought-Fox,” “Thistles,” and Crow. Even the academically invested, approaching the book with special­ ized knowledge, are likely to bring with them a set of associations...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 299–328.
Published: 01 September 2017
... . Daybell James . 2012 . The Material Letter in Early Modern England: Manuscript Letters and the Culture and Practices of Letter-Writing, 1512–1635 . New York : Palgrave MacMillan . Devlin Kimberly . 1985 . “ The Romance Heroine Exposed: ‘Nausicaa’ and The Lamplighter .” James Joyce...
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